Merit's History

The NSFNET Backbone Project, 1987 - 1995

NSFNET: 3-D Map Depicting NSFNET Traffic

The above image was developed by Donna Cox and Robert Patterson at NCSA/UIUC. It is a visualization study of inbound traffic measured in billions of bytes on the NSFNET Backbone Service in September 1991. The traffic volume range is depicted from purple (zero bytes) to white (100 billion bytes).

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Copyright NCSA/UIUC, image by Donna Cox and Robert Patterson